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J3Y ?. . MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 27, 1882. VOLUME XVIII.?NO. 2 _ ?. Attr CITAVU V * ? *~" 1!*?J?)W i vip *. HART & ?UfflPANY IlEADaVABTBBS FOB ANIEL PRATT COTTON GINS, THE BROWN COTTON GINS, FEEI?EBS AND CONDENSERS, ' SclioficUl's Cotton Press, ..w-lSES ) CilN CEASING. ' ' STATE AGENTS FOR KEMP'S SPREADER, . Pulverizer and Cart combined. Diet rib ' atea Manur?, Cotton fiecd, Muck, Marl, Ac, evenly in drills or broadcast. Every Macuinb Wabbakted. AGENTS FOU I grant's pat. fan mills, 'b?rrall corn shellers. FOR SALE C.7.V VRISTLES, BABBITT METAL, . BELTING, MILL STONES, PICKS, dr. AGENTS FOR Thos. Bradford's Corn, Wheat and Feed Mills. HART & CO., CHARLESTON, S. C. June ! ">. 18S2 48 ly Branch of Lmlden & Batcr. Grand Midsummer Sale. Preparine; for Fail Trade. BUY HOW AND PAY WHEN COTTON CO?tl ES IN. '200 Pianos and 500 Organs. THOUSANDS of musical families are intending to purchase Pianos and Or gans in the Fall when Cotton comes in. Why wait? Buy at once, and enliven tho long, hot summer months with music and make the "Harvest Homo" still more joy ful. Midsummer Special Offer. Under our Midsummer Sale we offer to sell during the months of JUNE, JULY, AUGUST and SEPTEMBER, 1882, PI ANOS and ORGANS, of every make.slyle and price, at our very lowest cash rates : On f?anos,$25 Cash, balance November 1,1882. On Organ?. $10 Cash, balance November 1,1882. Without Intere*/ or any advance in Price. If balance can't be paid in the fall, longer time will be b;ven, with a reasonable in crease of orice. ?ll instrumenta of every grade and price included in the sale. Tell your musical friends of it. Write us for Catalogues, Price List, Circulars. This offer closes October 1st, 1882. Address L. E. NORRYCE, Or McSiuith Music House, GREENVILLE, 8. C. June 29,1882 50 iBuist's, D. M. Ferry's, Hiram Sibley's, Johnson, Robbins & Reid's FRESH SEEDS AT RED) & CO/S, CHEA? FOR CASH. We will not be undersold. Feb 10,1882 31 I SAWING NOTICE. UVERY one wanting logs sawed can ?ave it done promptly at my Mill. w?ncc Lumber, in any quantity, dried and oresied, constantly on hand. . . ? A. H. OSBORNE. JolylS. 1882 52 THE SAVANNAH VALLEY RAILROAD tr -CIAS taken a fresh start, and work will ? rcsu"'ed. In few days, and thus tho ?S o? many of our citizens will proba y be accomplished in time to move the '"crop, ,? lne meantime our Firm IS BOUND wnn?nJ?n U?e wo* of maintaining |l>eaCon tor tow Prices and F*Ir pined ita ,nc'pioncy wo deter IP BE \?in?? *?U Competition, and by 1 fabor r: u HO EST BARGAINS we BUILT fr?*t$uw** we are not only proud of, W::2rS we ?bis opportunity to ?'aineft,Lmany customers. During tho ^aKoni0" 2*? anticipate keeping in BY t??ik^nJ!eJ.*dvl8e those In nee.1 of ?*Sl ta 4?? ??od Coed* atti "apRnlim to call on BROS. 40 3sk ? : ..w.;v . HUHTIC?LT?RAL SOCIETIES. The immondo Gooifthat en? be Done l? Them. 3 The address of President R. M. Sims before the State Horticultural Society at i w??Ag ln Columbia ?? ? was as follows: 3 Ladies and Gentlemen : I have been ins rumcntal in calling V0U together to make one more earnest effort to revive and to cstabhsb a State Horticultural Society; My connection with this society runs back but a few years. A few friend! met and organized the nocietv under rather promising circumstances. " \Ve had just obtained the reins this State ? eminent-commerce, society, everythine S? everybody seemed to be moved bv a new spirit. Our sister society, the State Agricultural Society, drooping almost to despair took a better heart and a steadier step and marched steadily forward to the success it has now attained. We met once more in Charleston and discussed the plan of a Fall meetiog in Columbia during the next Fair week. Unfortunately when the time came wo discovered that the secretary of the socie ty had moved from the State and had taken with him all records of member ship and the transactions of the first two meetings. The next given was in 1878 and by the kind help of the good people of Columbia and particularly of the la dies we hada very respectable meeting and exhibition. Then came two years o? disaster to crops, and v?e failed in that time to have a meeting. We are hero now to do whatever is in our power to revive this society, and to encourage the growth of horticulture iu eve:;> way possi ble throughout the State. The first question which suggests itself to our minds is, how can wo best do this? Admitting that the enterprise iu which we aro embarking has sufficient merit to commend itself to the thoughtful, intel ligent and progressive portion of our people, how arc we to induce hem to feel more interest in it, and to take more pains and more labor to develop it to a higher and a more remunerative indus try ? We can promise them that it will repay them in money, in health and in cheerfulness and happiness. Rut the main difficulty seems to be in the appar ent paradox that owing to our genial cli mate and fertile soil it requires so little effort to raise fruits and llowers and veg etables that it docs not require, and con sequently does not deserve, much atten tion nor pains nor skill to succeed. If we had a sterile soil and an inhospital climate like Massachusetts we would doubtless have more intelligence and more skilled labor eugiged iu horticul ture, and consequently better fruit. Just as people of Massachusetts have succeed ed in overcoming all of their difficulties and building up an accurate system of horticulture, and attained almos't perfec tion under their circumstances of climate and soil in producing the finest fruits and flowers, we may with less thp.n half of their trouble, iu fact by taking the ex Ce ri en ce of their labors iu part as a guide, uild up as perfect a system and produce as excelleut fruit as God permits on his footstool to grow. There is in the pursuit of horticulture, both as to the acquirement of knowledge and the exercise of industry necessary to succeed, less of self-aggraudizement, flattery and vain show, and more of sub stantial happiness and contentment than iu any occupation at all. At a time wheu everything is couuted and valued by dollar? and cents we claim that there is moro money to bo made by intelligent la bor iu the orchard aud iu the vineyard than in the cotton and the corn field. But this is not all ; the human mind, the soul, the family altar cannot be measured by gold. There is something continually whispering to us in the toil and sweat of the day's labor that there is something higher that we live for than the mere worldly drop of gold aud silver?peace, contentment, happiucss and comfort of the home and tho fireside. This makes up the inner life and whatever adds to filling up this gap is one of God's richest blessings ; and if I know one thing of horticulture and of the true teachings of its philosophy it is that there is a pleas ure in industry, a peculiar pleasure in ? the innocent care and culture of fruits and flowers, which increases just in pro portion as taste and refinement direct our , labors instead of bare utility. A gentleman went to my friend, Mr. Gille?pie, the accommodating superinten dent of the Southern Express Company, and said that he contemplated goiug into ; fruit-raising for shipping to New York, and before doing so he wanted togetspe- j cial rates. The superintendent, during ? the couversatiou, asked him how much , ho expected to realize from his crates of peaches. He said $8. This upon an ay- ? erage good fruit year would amount in his expectations to about $1,500 per acre. ? It is to correct erroneous ideas of this kind that wo should attempt to diesemi- ; ualc accurate knowledge and data from our society. But who is to do it? It is , !i plain, plodding, painstaking effort to , keep up such a society. It has its pleas- ? uree, both in a social way and in more | substantial rewards of am pie remuneration , for the labor bestowed ; but the merit and , the objects of tho Bociety do not commend , themselves to a great many, and diecour- | igements, such as a bad crop year, over- , itocked markets, loss from insects and irought discourage a great many, and it is loR to tho few who really have the J natter very much at heart to keep it alive ( ind progressing. I have atteuded, as regularly as I could, , lince 1870 the biennial sessions of the ( American Pomological Society. There , ve have representatives from all parts | )f the continent, but the interest is kept , tp by a dozen or twenty men. Bat hey aro men of large views, such as , IVilden Downing, Berckmane, Meeban, , Warder, Elliot, Thurber, &c. I have , deo attended, as often as possible, the , Georgia State Horticultural Society, and | t is controlled, managed and kent alive , >y a dozen or fifteen men. But the goou , hat this society has done to Georgia is , mmense. They have divided their State < nlo three zones or belts?the coast region, | he middle country and the mountain ?ountry. At each u.:sting they go c?r? ul ly over tho catalogues of overy variety if worthy fruit and discuss how each :ind succeeds in the different sections of he State. This is at once a good and almost an infallible guide to every one imbarkintr in horticulture either for deasnre, home comfort or for profit as ? low, when and what to plant. That is net what wo want here. Attain this society has put its face gainst tree peddlers. Thoy have a num- , %x of first-class nurseries in Georgia and lot one of them employe a peddler. The ree peddler is the bane, tho curse to the irarross of horticulture in this State, [ hey are not only extortionate, but they re generally ignorant and unscrupulous, [ hey sell you trees and nes that are ladly grown at fabulous pnces, tbeysend hem to yes when you least expect them, bad order, and are not in one caw out I ten what you really need and what ou wanL Unfortunately the great lumber of our people do not know what rill suit them ; for an apple, or a pear, ".strawberry that will d\> well one ection of the country often fails *a an other ; for instance, some of the finest Northern winter apples, when planted nere, ripen in August and are not lit to eat. So here again is the great need of a society like ours to tell our people what will grow and ripen in the different sec tions of the State, and when they will npcn and what are good for home con sumption, the table, for cooking or for market. Hut this is not all that we can accomplish, and if time and your pa tience would permit I would with pleas ure dwell upon the great benefits to he derived from hybridization, the produc tion of new fruits by planting seeds, the amelioration of those that are harsh by care and cultivation, and tell vou how wide and interesting a field is be'fore him or her culera heartily into tlio spirit of horticulture, who watches Nature and improves every opportunity to help her efforts to produce the richest results for man's comfort and luxury. I would gladly point to vo" how profuse and be neficent Nature h lavished her hands upon us. In England there are not inoro than nineteen different trees that grow aoovc thirty feet, in Europe tbere are about tweuty-nine, whilst we havo here thirty-nine different kinds of oak alone. In Europe they bave but one grape vine, and hero east of the Mississippi Kiver we have five und on this continent eight distinct species : The fox grape, the summer grape, the winter grape, the low land winter grape, rapar?a und the mus cadine, witli one otber in Texas aud in Arizona aud one in California. I would tell you too how in England they can only raise peaches and grapes under glass, and that even in the Nuithern pa?t of the United Stntcs their grape vines have to he protected during winter by being covered up with straw or earth. Here the richest fruits grow in abundance without protection and almost without cultivation. All of these advantages will strike you as rich gifts which our Creator has lavished upon us, and to improve, them should bo our first duty next to our children and family. What we most need now is a society of intel ligent persons banded together in the in terest of horticulture, who will meet here or at some point in the State annually, and discuss the merit or demerit of the different kinds of fruits, as to how they are affected by the different soils and latitudes in the State, to test new seed lings and hybrids and new varieties from every quarter of the globe, and be able to cull what is best for our uses from the wbo'o ; to publish the result of such e - perience so that every one may read as he runs ; to put the foot down upon tree peddlers, and to acknowledge the merit of the bonest and true nurserymen aud to denounce those who deal falsely and fraudulently. It is impossible, and it would be a reproach to your intelligence, to attempt to relate even a small part of the duties ! or benefits to be derived from our society properly conducted. It is sufficient to say that to make rupid und uccurate pro gress in horticulture it is absolutely nec essary to combine in u society, when our experiences uro compared, errors correc ted, and new fruits and new theories are thoroughly tested and recommended only after thorough trial. The advantages of a combined association of this kind are plainly demonstrated in the histories of horticulture in Duston and in New York. In Huston the intelligence and spirit of the citizens always act combiuedly, and has effected more progressin horticulture than in any other place I may say in the world. Her horticulture society has more intelligence, taste, wealth aud en terprise in it than cau be found anywhere in the world. lier exhibitions of fruit arc perfectly marvellous?to think of 31K> varieties of pears exhibited by one grower alone, and almost equal nud abundant success in ull other fruits. In New York they always act inharmoni ously, and consequently effect little, al- , though they have hud an organization I of the Farmer's Club there for half a cen tury, nud have greatly the advantage in position, soil, &c, over Boston. 1 am told you will not see so fino a collection at London or Paris or Ghent as at Boston, and to-day it is impossible to collect us fine a variety of fruit for the table any where abroad as you can in the United States. Aud I nm sure, with a little at tention, we can raise in this State and in Georgia the greatest variety and as fine specimens of fruit as in any State in the Union. Of all the fruits which are pro duced upon the face of the earth, pomo logist place first in merit the mustos?n, a fruit indigenous to the Island of Java and other islands in the Indian Archi pelago, second the pineapple, tbird the orauge, fourth the peach, fiftn the grape and sixth the pear. With the exception of the first two named, the mustogen and the pineapple, we raieo all the rest in South Carolina and Georgia, and a great many others of equal merit, I think?the apricot and nectarine, the strawberry, raspberry, gooseberry, whortleberry, mul berry, blackberry, the mespelus plum, ihe Japanese persimmon, the apple, the curreut, the cherry, the chestnut, tlie fig t.nd melone and potatoes in profusion. Surely we arc- blessed, and I will notiivo to see, but a half a century will see this country teaming with the moat lucious fruits of the thiee zones and our people wine-making and a wine-drinking peo ple instead of drunkards from whiskey and guzzlers of beer. My heart is so much in this matter of promoting every worthy and stable inter est of the State, of developing every in luslry that tends to benefit and amelior ate the condition of the people, that I wish 1 knew what morc I could say ordo to get our people to think as I do and practice as I do what I preach by putting there minds and their hands to the work of planting orchards and vineyards of the best trees and of the best vines, of riving their attention and care, and above ill of giving them the consideration of worth and praise that they are entitled to in our domestic economy, health, com fort and well-being. When we have suc ceeded in predicai horticulture, in prac tical field, orchard and garden culture, the rest will flow easily from it, for 'grapes do not grow of thorns nor figs of thistles." _ South Carolina will get $375,400 iut of the River and Harbor Appropria tion Bill. ? The Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier says : Col. John R, Abney left Columbia on Thursday even ine for Camden, to prepare for the de fence of Capt. Haile, who is to he tried at Carolen in September for the killing of Col. Blair, Col. Abney having been retained es leading counsel for the de fence. Judge Mackey has been retained to assist in the prosecution. _ dispatch from Raleigh, N. C, dated August 3, says : governor Jams to day took possession in beba? o? the State of the premises known as Camp Russell, property of tho 8tate which has been he?? bfthe United States e ver si nee 1865. Secretary Lincoln directed the gergeant in charge to withdraw from the p?, TheVtion of the S^retary excites favorable comment as the State Government has been making efforts to regain possession of the property ever since 1877. THE WHITE KACE WILL RULE. ' No l'urt or the Country can A^aln evrr be Controlled by tbo Negro ltaco." Entracti from (lit Sprtch of Gmtiretnnan S. 1 II'. iloutton, of llltiwii, July 'itt, ISSi No allowance is made by gentlemen 1 upon tbo other side fur the great dispari- j I ty between tbo colored and white races ill the intelligence and all of the ele menta which constitute power and ca pacity to manage, control and govern. In these latter particulars the Anglo Saxon race is pre eminently and infinite ly the superior of thw colored race. There is also th? other great fact that does not seem to have been taken into consideration by ti:e Kepublicau party as a reason why thousands of colored men should vote with the Democrats or ululiate with tbo Democratic party, and that is the fact that almost the outire property of the Southern Sutes is owned by the white meo, who aro Democrats. This is an element of great power and is always used und everywhere for pur poses of advantage ami control, in polit ical us well us in other matters, against the weaker class. None of these fuete aro taken into consideration, and they are sufficient to account for the nat?rul growth of the Democratic party in the South from the ranks of the colored peo ple. Now, with these great advantages on the sido of the white mnn, i- it .strange or unreasonable or wonderful that living in the same section with the colored men, who constitute a very large percentage of the voting population, that the intel ligent white man of the South should use his power over tho colored man by argument, by persuasion, by position, by superior intelligence, by appeals to his own senso of good government, to take sides with them in political ques tione? Or, bciugownersof the property, and having the capacity to control and govern, it is entirely natural that he should induce the colored man to vote and act with him for his own as well as the white man's interest. I ask if there ia anything strange or uunutursl in such a course as this? I ask if it is not entirely reasonable and proper that such course should be pur sued / Why, it ib tho universal law that governs everywhere th-oughout the world; why should i; not operate in South Carolina ? The weaker loans upon tho stronger?the stronger controls the weaker; and if it is for the interest of the stronger man .0 control tbo weaker man by using his vote or his muscle, it is done. It is done in Massachusetts, it is done in Illinois, it is done in South Carolina. My proposition, then, is that the white race of ibis couutry in 110 Stato in this Union, whatever the disparity of num- 1 bers may be, will ever submit to the domination of the inferior race ; and that t1 3 colored race, tho ratio of num- ! bere being the same, would have no greater chanco for political success in Massachusetts than it has in South Car- , olina, or in Illinois loan in Mississippi. The superior race never has submitted in the history of the world and uever , will submit to tho domination or con trol of the weaker or inferior race. This is the great universal law of nature. We see it exhibited everywhere. It is practiced every day. It is practiced in every couutry, in all climates, and there j is no exception to the rule. It is then a Eriuciple governing humanity that may ' e accepted as without exception that the strong will take advantage of his strength and use his influence and his power for tho interest of himself, and , whether physical or political. And this, Mr. Speaker, is the teaching - of all history. It is the inevitable law of ' tho survival of the fittest. The superior race will control the inferior, not neces- 1 sarily or usually by force, or by fraud, but by the power of superior intelligence and the power resulting from that intel ligence. The weak everywhere yield to the strong, by persuasion or by argu- 1 ment, or by appeals to self-interest, and ' it is these circumstances that surround tbo colored man of the South and com- ' pel bis (subordination. It is this which 1 enables the man' with superior inlelli- 1 geuce, or the man wit. property, with ? position, with power, to control the weaker party not only physically but ' practically ; and it is tho merest hypoc risy, the merest platitude, for any one to Sretend the contrary. My friend from licbigan uses that power in his own State; it is done everywhere. It is a principle of power that springs from tho advantages of intelligence, wealth, or , capacity to govern and control. Mr. Speaker, the principle of power from superior advantages of intelligence, wealth, capacity to govern and control obtains every wheru in the Middle States 1 and in the Now England States. The weaker everywhere are driven to the . wall. The Republican party to-day alone maintains its power by the circum stance of its possession of the offices, by the circumstance of its possession of the elements of power, its unlimited control over one hundred thousand or more ' office-holders. I may illustrate one phase of the ' Siower of the Republican parly by the act that they have i>.?st assessed and are now collecting $1,Oim),000 from their em ployees fur political purposes and to per petuato their power. j This is claimed to be legitimate, and yet when the white man of tho South uses his legitimate power from the cir cumstances that surround him to induce the colored man to vote tho Democratic ' ticket and against the Republican party, in Republican eyes it is infamous and all wrong. Why, Mr. Speaker, in my judgment ? the possession of the Government by the Republican party is due to this very principle of power of circumstance, the circumstance of possession, the circum stance of unlimited wealth. Your pos session of the army, of the navy, of the , Supreme Court, of all the offices of this ( Government?it is this power that gives you the control, and you use it unscru pulously ; you use it tctbe .fall extent; you assess your operatives ; you raise Sour millions and you flood with it the taten where thero is doubt of losing , control. The tenure of your offices to day i? held by this principio, which you claim is self-preservation. But I want to say those Southern men cling to that same principle down there ; the right of self-preservation, the right to govern themselves in their uwu way and for their best interests. The power held by the Republican party is being used to day to perpetuate their power. You use every appliance within your means, and I am sorry to say that you are unscru pulous in your methods of using your power to control this Government. I want to say something further in this connection. You may make your election laws ; you may turn out the white men of the South and you may seat your colored brother. It will not reverse the natural law of the will and the power of the white man to control in matters of this kind. You may turn out Mr. Tillmsn, but the white men will retara him here, whatever the census may show as to numbers. No part of the country can again ever be controlled by the negro race. We have bad sufficient illustrations of their government and the cons?quences that flowed from it. I say that this is a coun try for tbc white niau, and in no part of it?not in Massachusetts or Illinois, or in Michigan?would the white men, whatever their disparity of numbers may be, submit to tho domination of the weaker, tho colored race. It would be against the law of nature to do so. lu illustration of this statement allow me to say you may place 600 colored men upon an island, aud vou may place 100 white men from aficbigau there with them, and in less than six months the 100 white men will absolutely control and rightfully control tho f)90 colored men. And why" iiecause they aro tho cu >erior race, because they have tho intel igence, tho capacity to govern. Tlie in ferior race cannot cope with them and necessarily yields beforo them. I say that ?t is legitimate, it is rif,ht, it is the law of nature. You cannot pass any statute to reverse it. No Fifteenth amendment to the Constitution can re verse it. It stands out as a groat law that governs human nature everywhere and has always governed it. f I wish to say in conclusion, as my time is almost out, hero is a case which shows that thousands of tho colored met? have voted for Mr. Tilltuan. We show there is every reason why they should have voted for him on general principles, principles which govern communities everywhere. But it is proposed to ignoro Mr. Tillmau's 8,000 maionty. It is pro posed to throw out tlarnwell County, and without any reason. It- is proposed to say to Mr. Tiilman, "We will not per mit you to hold your seat here ; it is true wo nro guessing at the thing, there is no proof about it, but you havo got to go, and the colored man is to take your seat in order that there may bo a publie sen timent created in tho Southern States so that wo may control them more effectu ally." I say that this sort of doctrino will not do. I say that whatever you may do in reference to this particular case, tho white race of tho South will dominate there. Tho white raco of the South will control the elections; the white race of tho South will send up white men to represent it, whatever may be your action hero. Mr. Tyler: May they do it by forco? Mr. M uniton : No, sir ; I have anid it is not necessary to do it by force. I have said that superior intelligence, ca pacity to govern, superiority in every thing, the holding of tho property gavo them every advantago in controlling the weaker race, juet as they would control und do control it in the gentleman's State aud my State and everywhere. The evidence has been ignored. The principles ol law that govern are disre garded and a blind partisan zeal governs. In tho next Congress the numbers will predominate upon the Democratic side, and then the reco.d that tho Ucpublicau party has made on these election cases will return to trouble and perplex you. Hut the Democratic party will be just and upright, I hope, in whatever it may do. The UncoustltutionalUy of the Kuklux Act. The decision of Judge Woods, oi tho United States Supreme Court, iu the case of LeGrand, as reported for the Clalveston News, is published to-day. It goes quite as far as the synopsis published formerly in the Acte* and Courier led us to suppose. The decision of Judge Woods is on tho line of the decisions of the United States Supreme Court on similar sub jects, and Judge Woods himself, before bis elevation to the Supreme Bench, at tacked vigorously tho constitutionality of the provisions of the Kuklux laws, and carried the Supreme Court with him. If his presen decision bo sustained, as we have no doubt that it will be, the whole Kuklux law falls to the ground, on account of defects iu the phraseology of the Statute, and for the higher reason that the Constitutional amendments muet act upon tho Stato and not upon tho in dividual offender. A citizen whose rights, as guaranteed by the Constitutional amendments, ore impaired in any way by State legislation, or by the acts of State officers, has the right of appeal to the Supreme Court ot the State, and thence to the Supreme Court of the United States, which tribunal will set aside the proceedings against him, if hia allegations provo to bo truo, and will declaro unconstitutional any State law which is in violation of the Constitution. The prohibitions contained in tho XIV and XV amendments must bo enforced in the same manner as the prohibitions in the original Constitution and the earlier amendments. Under the decision of Judge Woods the whole of the indictments in the Southern States under the Kuklux law were illegal. The States were ravaged by cavalry. Thousands of quiet citizens were driven from their homes. On the testimony of lying witnesses a number of the accused were convicted and sent to Albany Penitentiary, there to lan guish for years. It nor/ is showr that '.hey were convicted with less rea. au thority than if tbey had been the vic tims of a drum-head court-martial. The fact that some of the accused were prob ably guilty of some of the charges brought against them does not lessen the wrong that was done iu convicting them without warrant of law. By parity of reasoning Judge Wooda's decision nullifies the sections of the Re vised Statutes under which the Ellenton prisoners were tried. There was a mie trial in those cases, and tho objections made by tho counsel for the defence bave not been adjudicated. The practice in the United States Court in this State is to assume that every law and every part of it, having a politics! application, is constitutional. Every objection made by the defence is overruled, the defen dants having the power to move in arrest of judgment if they be convicted. It is a most unjust way of proceeding, as it postpones the final adjudication ol vitally important questions. When there is mistrial oran acquittal, there is no way to obtain a decision from the Supreme Court on the pointa submitted, and, as in the case of the Kuklux law, a statute which may be manifestly unconstitution al remains in full force as a means of plaguing and persecuting the political opponente of the party in power. In the Kuklux cases, in this State, there was no division of tho Court, and no suspension of sentence. A decision by the Supreme Court could not have been had until about tho time that the prison ers had served out their sentence. The Kuklux laws have fulfilled their Siurpoee, and, as cold reason and respect or constitutional limitations resume their sway, wo sball expect to see statute after statute of the Reconstruction period pronounced unconstitutional. In this sense the American revolution will go backwards. The Republicans will then be recognized fully as the wanton violators of the Constitution, and, as such, the worst enemies of tho Republic. ? An Arkansas bridegroom caught the bride in bin arms, at the conclusion of the ceremony, and dislocated two of her ribs with a violent hog. LAST FIGUT OX JAMES ISLA ML On tlic Et? of the Confederate ltetrent. Primte A. I'. Fon!, l&th litUt.ilion s. c. I'., in the Churtction Weekly Xetvt. During tlio cnrly par', of I860 Major Kdward Manigauit commanded tlic Con federate lines on tho southeastern part of James Island, extending along portion of Stono Kiver and in Front of Legaro'a I plantation on Folly Kiver. This officer was considered to ho one of the ablest of his rank on tho coast, and bv his strict j enforcement of discipline and his watch ; ful, particular attention to his duty, had ; won the ininliri? confidence ;;f bis com mand. It" was the writer's privilegi? to ! servo under him as a member of the l'ai I metto Guard, known ollicially as Com* pany "A," Eighteenth Battalion, S. G. I V. This Company hnd been detached J some eight months previous to its return ' to James Island in .January, 18? , and had been doing moot arduous duty on Combahce, nominally as artillerists, hut truly ?b infantry, cavalry, couriers or anything else that tho urgency of cases and paucity of men rendered necessary. On tho opening of tho new year tho four field pieces were finally taken away, and Company " " settled down absolutely as infantry and resumed its placo under its battalion commander on tho Stono picket lines. Tho camp was about half a mile to tho rear of tho outposts, and at early dawn on tho 10th of February thoso men not at tho moment on duty wcro aroused by tho long-roll nnd hurried to tho lines, as it was reported that indications of an advance were observed among tho enemy in front. As tho roinforccincuts ueared the picket lino the Federals commenced , to shell vigorously from a battery oppo site and two or three gunboats in tho river, but, although then; missilos wcro ; woll directed, the distnnco from which they were fired was sufficient to enable j our men to watch nearly ovcry shot, and no casualty occurred. Our entire forco ulong this portion of tho lino consisted of the majority of Webb's and Smith's Companies and a ! email detachment from the Second Keg inient of Artillery, numbering, all told, seven officers and about ninety men. i Tho shelling of our line was kept up ] vigorously until about 10 o'clock a. ni., when a regiment of Federals came out t from tho woods nnd brush on to an open ' stretch of Band and weedy marsh in front. < where they deployed as skirmishers, nud gradually advaticed to within probably 200 yards of our line. Tho firing soon | became, rapid, and continued for about a half an hour, when tho enemy retir carrying oll their own few disabled. O... ? men, being protected by slight earth- j works, sustained very few casualties, but , among the number was that of a privato | in the Second Artillery, who, placing an j undue value upon his physique, cowered , behind tho breastwork, when l'rivntc , -, of Company "A," Eighteenth Hat- , talion, turned savagely upon him with j the words, "You-coward, if you { don't rise and fight I'll blow your brains, j out !" and clapped tho muzzle of his rifle ? to his head ready to carry out his threat. ( Second ArliHey quickly concluded that t there was les risk to a hnlf of his body above tho breastwork than to nil of it , behind it, and nervously rising upon his , feet in obedience to tho command orna- , natiug from an outraged sonso of manli- , ness and sell-constituted authority, un fortunately pluced his valued forehead in ( the direct course of a skirmisher's bullet, ( aud fell heavily in his tracks. Amen I t The skirmish was evideutly intended . as a reconnoiesauce to feel our strength 1 preparatory to a stronger assault, and about 2 o'clock p. m. we could see large bodies of troops forming into line across ( the mardi, who soon ndvanced at doublo- 1 quick step. The attacking force was es- ( Limateli at the moment by our officers ut ] about two thousand, and tho writer was informed soon after tho close of tho war, > by some of the United States soldiers I who then were stationed at Aiken, that 1 their force consisted of two white and 1 two negro regiments, confirming the ac- I curacy of the eetimute that our officers i had mudo. The negro regiments were in i front and forced to the assault by tho whites behind ; and we distinctly heard, < in aptte of the noiso of our firing, the 1 Federal officers cursing their troops and ? urging them forward. The enemy did not fire a shot as they advanced, and our orders simply were to hold our ground? . orders which to a man our men purposed [ to obflv. When iho average Hue of the ? advancing force reached to within fifty feet of our line, it became evident to our \ men that a hand to band struggle was to , be met ; and in fact ono or two of the t foremost Federal soldiers had actually ] mounted upon our breastworks, and at , least one was shot in such a position and ( fell over into the mir'*' of our men. . j At this moment, when a bayonet fight ? against over twenty to ono seemed inevi- , table, Maj. Manigauit, who calmly stood , immediately behind the centre of our , line, ordered the retreat. Up to this , time not a man bad flinched from duty, [ at hearing the order to fall back, each < turned and ran, some reloading, turning , and firing buck as tbey retreated. The < Federals instantly opened upon us a heavy volley of musketry, causing a large number of casualties, and pursued us for about one hundred and fifty yards, when ] to our surprise tbey suddeuly nulled. > As we afterwards learned, tbey feared an < ambush, not believing that such a little < force as ours had proved to bo would have held their ground so stubbornly 1 unless confident of strong support. Had 1 tbey known the paucity of our men in < tho neighborhood they could have ad- \ vanccd far into tho Island, for all the ' Confederato troops within two miles of < the epot were the Battalion of Citadel Cadets and one or two companies of the Second Artillery. As soon as the pursuit erased cur men \ were halted aud reformed into ranks, ' and upon investigation it was found that . out of the total force of ninety-seven en* 1 gaged, thirty-four men and two officers had been killed, wounded and captured, < aud among them our gallant Major, who was very severely wounded. The Fed erais held our Hues for ouly a few hours, and after disposing of their dead and wounded retired early in the evening to ! their own. A few months afterwards tho writer was informed by some of these men that they had suffered seriously in the attack, and bad lost almost as many < men as we Had engaged. The assault 1 was gallantly led by Gen. Schimmelp fennig, who, mounted upon a handsome ? sorrel horse, afforded a tempting mark < for some of our rifles, but fortunately 1 escaped unharmed, and only auout a , week later was in command of tho city of Charleston. During the remainder of the week that we held James Island, more from the ignorance on the part of the Federale of our weakness than from any ability of our own. our troops were subjected to the most arduous and incessant picket duty, so that it was a relief to all when, on the 17th February, we evacuated the Island and commenced our march towards North Carolina. At this period, when the Confederacy was Hearing its end, the Eublic attention was so much absorbed y the devastations of Sherman, and by far more important occurrence* else where, that this little fight, earnest and ' stubborn as it was, passed almost unno ticed. Having no effect upon the course j of events aud being practically of no importance, it attracted the attention only of those who were personally in terested in the participants. The Condition of the Crops in Sottili Carolina. The following arc the reports on the condition of the crops foi the month ending duly 81, 1882, from returns to the South Carolina Department of Agricul ture. The estimates given aru based upon I?fl replies, covering every County ill he Stale : Til Wl?ATHKH. One bundred und thirty three corres pondents report the weather for the month of duly favorable and twenty-two that it has been unfavorable. Three correspondents in Darlington County re port that the ruins have been ho fr?quent aud heavy as to cause sonic H?ght dam age to crops, und live correspondents in Anderson, Chester, Laurons and Spar tanburg Counties report that a drought prevailed for about '.bree weeks, sonio what reducing tho condition of all crops. COTTON. The condition of cotton is below an average, owing almost entirely to tho cool Spring, which injured tho "stand," and from the effects of which it has not recovered. Tho greatest injury woa sus tained by tho Northern Counties. The 1 plant for the past month has been grow ing finely und fruiting weli. Sumo ap- 1 prehonsion in felt on account of contin ued rains, but no damage ol any cotise- ; ipionco is yet reported from this cause. ' Kour correspondents in Darlington, Col- I loton and lluinnton Counties note the ' oppearanco of the worm, hut in very ; amali numbers, and they have not yet 1 injured tho plant. Rust is reported by | four correspondents in Anderson, Spur- ' tanburg, Newberry and Huuipton Coun- ! ties, and nine correspondents in Darling- 1 ton, Fairfield, Berkeley, Charleston, Col- \ Icton, Clarendon and Williamsburg > bounties report that the plant is shed- ' Jing leaves and fruit, but no uneasiness \ is felt from either rust or shedding un- 1 less the raion during August are execs- 1 live. The plant is generally small 1 throughout tho State but well fruited. J l'ho condition is reported in Northern Carolina at SS, middle Carolina nt 98 1 find lower Carolina at DU?an average for 1 '.ho State of 94, against 72 for tho same ' '.ime last year. ' COHN. 1 The seasons have been remarkably fine \ lor corn. In addition to favorable sea- : inns better land was devoted to this crop, 1 cultivation has been far better and a iarger percentage of the crop fertilized ! ban formerly. All of tbeso causes have ? nudo the crop an unusually fine one, u I 1 .he present indications uro that consul- 1 ;rably above un average, crop will be 1 jar vest ed. Karly corn is made beyond ill contingences, and the seasons have ! >een very favorable for tho late planting. Much of the oat sluhblo was planted in ' soni and peas, and the prospects for full :rops of both aro very encouraging. ! Ono correspondent in Col Icton County eports that a farmer in his vicinity bar- ( rested forty bushels of oats per acre, and 1 vili realize an equal quantity of corn ind peas. 1 The condition is reported in Northern \ Jarolina at 1()!>, middle Carolina 105, md lower Carolina 111?an average for 1 he State of 100 against 53 for the same j jeriod last year. RICE. j Upland rico is generally reported ill ? ;oou condition, is growing well untie. \ ho stimulus of fa"orablo seasons and < r,ood culture, and (ho prospects aro very ? iromising. In tho low country it is not i as good condition, but full crop is | tot improbahlo. correspondent in , Ueaufort says : "Rico crop on upper Sa- ( /annuii is fully up to nu average. On j niddle and lower sections it is much be- \ ow. On back water plantations crops < lave suiforod soverely from drought and \ u tho Combahco River from salt, water." t I ho condition is reported in Northern < Jarolina at 98, middle Curolina 98 and ? owcr Carolina itti. An average for the state of 07 against U2 last year. ( BORGIIUM ani) shoah cane. i Although theso crops have rapidly { jrown in favor with tho farmers of the ( ?tate, they (?tili do not receive the atleti- J ion that their importance demands, f Wherever sorghum or sugar cano bus 1 >een properly cultivated it iias amply J epaid all expenses attending its cultiva- 1 .ion and left a bande?me profit besides. I Either can bo grown as an extra crop ' vithout very great additional lubor or , ixpense, aud its growth will supply the arm with what should be one of its most ' reportant products. In nil the Counties 1 where sorghum and sugar cane are grown ( .o any extent, the correspondents report ' .he crop small but in fino condition and ' rowing rapidly. The condition is : j ?orghurn? Northern Carolina 94, middle 1 Carolina 97, lower Carolina 95? Sugar !. ;ane?Northern Carolina 100, middle 1 Jarolina 98, lower Carolina 98. PEAH. The reports on the condition of the ;>ea crop are very encouraging, and the < aerease of acreage shows that the farm- | ire appreciate tho importance of the ? jrop, not only as forago crop, but as the ( net economical plan of increasing the j Fertility of tho soil. In overy County , .he seasons have been favorable and the rop is growing rapidly with prospects ; ?f a full crop. The condition is given in Northern Carolina at 104, middle ( Jarolina 99 and lower Carolina 105. , the outlook. < The agricultural outlook has not for ; many years been so encouraging. The wheat crop wad fully up to uu average. ] l'be yield of oata was unprecedented. \ A full cotton crop will almost certainly ? bo realized. With tho early corn crop 1 issured beyond all doubt and the late :rop very promising tho indications are 1 that our farmers will have "corn to sell I wid keep." IVas will be fully up to an 1 average if they do not surpass it. The t rice crop bids fair to bo better than usual, < Sorghum, sugar cano, potatoes, turnips < md all the smaller crops will yield boun- t tifully. The farmers began the new year ] ilmost dispirited from the misfortunes < :aubcd by the unprecedented drought of < last year, but with the indomitable cou- t rage and energy which have ever char- I icterized the people of the State they < commenced their operations for the year. They have pursued their avocation with a pluck and perseverance worthy of their noble calling, and, with the favorable seasons which have prevailed during tho year, they have overcome almost insur mountable difficulties and at the close of the year they can look hack upon their work with pride and satisfaction and will enjoy the fruite of their labore/ which they have so justly won. A correspondent in Anderson says : "Farm?ra cheerful and buoyant. Out look brighter than for several years. Garners full of small grain and good health combine to make the citizens cheerful, social, kind and happy." A correspondent in Fairneld says: *'Oat crop so good and corn so promising 1 that it is thought that it will not be. IVj A V ill.?INO. ?. necessary for t!ie County to buy feod for stock or bromi for the people."" Tho nuovo extracts, fairly represent tho tone of all tbe reports, ami lliey furnish tbe highest evidence of the condition of tho planters. Every citizen in the. Stato can rejoice with til l farmers, for when tho agriculture of the country is pros perous all the trades and professions llourish. A UREAT ADVERTISER DEAD. Sketch of tho Man who lias Mudo SI. Jacob'* Oil Fuihoun. Baltimore, August ">. Charles . Vogelcr, managing partner of the firm of A. Vogelcr & Co., of this eity proprietors of patent medicines, died tliis morning quite unexpectedly, of typho-malarial fever, in the thirty-fourth year of Ids age. Mr. Vogelcr has for ten years past had the reputation of being the largest advertiser in the world. .Several years ago Mr. Vogeler's father conducted a small business in lialliiuorc, selling what has since become a famous patent medicine. Mr. Chas. . Vogelcr, his sou, astounded him one day w ith the announcement that ho intended to spend (20,000 <luring the next year in adver tising. Tho old gentleman protested, but young blood prevailed, and next year tho linn cleared $30,000 ou the Kale of a medicine which had hitherto yielded only a comp?tence to the family." Sinco that time the firm of Vogelcr & .Sons, Lombard ami German streets. Iihk con ducted the most complete and extensivo advertising establishment in America, or i\t least it has been ho acknowledged through the Scientific American and the general public. In tho magnificent building which the firm has erected the medicino has not only been sold, but its nlvcrlising? considerably moro impor tant matter?attended to in every branch, including tho inspection of thousands ot newspapers from Australia to Alexandrin; In tho present disturbed Egypt. A visit to this house is said to bo otic of the most interesting which can be made by a vis itor lookiug for tho curiosities of tho jity. Forty or fifty girla are employed in tho single duly of examining tho newspapers in which the firm advertise .heir medicine, while in all there arc thrao hundred employees in the house. This large force turned out everything needed, except tho bottles, in a patent ncdicino business which amounted to at east a million dollars a year. It was his rule in business never to let any body nake anything for the firm that the firm ould make for itself, and as result thu imount of mental labor necessary to lircct tho many details kept Mr. Vogelcr ,ied down to hard work with little inter nission. In working up this business, it s Haid, Mr. Vogeler luis been so iudefat gable as to break down a naturally very itroiig constitution, (lifted with keen ipprecialion of tho requirements nccessa ft to the successful conduct of business in lis age of push and enterprise, Mr. Voge er appears to have determined from the tutset to make his operations the talk of ho whole country. Always observing a vholesome degreo of caution, Lut never ailing to act quickly aud fearlessly wheu ipportunity offered, he gradually exte'nd ;d tho area of operations until his nnmo ?particularly iu the West?became Byn tnymoua with outerpriso and tho com )ound in which he principally dealt, ?lis modes of advertising were strikingly iriginttl iu character, und displayed most :aroful study of human nature. Ono of lis most memorable "new departures" vas his buying and fitting up a steam boat to run up and down the Mississippi mil Ohio Rivers and tributaries to ad vertise his medicine. If a consignment if medicino was ordered by a customer New Orleans, Mr. Vngeler would ship it to ('airo or some other convenient noiut, where hin steambont, "The St. Jacob s Oil," would meet it and tnko it o the destined point. lie would not lesitato to send the littlo steamer ou a voya^o of 200 miles to deliver ono caso )f medicine in some little bayou of the Mississippi or up tho Ucd River. When he steamer reached tho destination tho sontignmont would be delivered to the istonished purchaser, und then tho (earner would lay off in the stream while Japt. Paul Boy ton or nomo other celeb ity gave an exhibition for the benefit of iverybody. At night fireworks would he lischarged from the steamer, which vould then proceed c '. !ts way. Bf fading he fame of A. Vogeier & Son wherever t went. The operation of this steamer vas not tho only device for advertising lie business conceived and successfully nit in operation by the deceased. Ilo dways had agents travelling in the West 'billing" all the large towns and writing 'narrativo advertisements" of his busi ?ess. This latter style of advertising vas the idea of Mr. Vogeler, and was mi ployed by his agents to an astonishing istent. The firm of A. Vogelor&Son lid a business aggregating several mili one of dollars per annum, and it bas nceii the policy of the deceased to spend )ver $1,000,000 per annum in advertis ing. Biggest Lio ou Record. "Talk about your snake stories," said Jonductor Phil Simms, who nulls the jell-cord on the Air-Lino, at tue union lassenger depot yesterday, "but I can ell you something that beata 'em all hol ow, and Bud Braunon, Jim McCool and Tohn Savage will all swear to it." "What is it?" asked Conductor HcLendon, of the Central. "Well, you know the Air-Line cars ?scd to be a canary color, but all of these Tars except ono havo disappea-cd. This jar is No. 9 and is a combination express ind baggage and runs between Allanta \nd Richmond. Not long ago John Little, tho baggage master, noticed as wo were passing through John O. Calhoun's )ld place in Carolina a "rauddauber" was building its nests in one corner, but after t run of about two miles tho "dauber" (lew out. On tho return trip the "dau ber" came in again and after working un bis nest while wo ran about the same dis pnee, again went out the door. This ho lid for several trips until finally Littlo railed our attention to it, and wo all got o noticing it. Now every time No. i) jasaos that section of Carolina going or souring that samo "dauber" comes into tho ;ar and works on his home for the samo wo miles and then goes out. What jothcrs mo is to know what the "dauber" loes between drin?trips, I mean. But It's time to go."?Atlanta ComtUution. ? A boy ran away from his homo in Baltimore some weeks ago, and several lays afterwards a boy answering his de scription was run over and killed by a train in a Pennsylvania town. Tho re mains were fully identified as those, of the missing boy, and were exhumed, Laken to Baltimore and buried by the heart broken parents, A few days ago the supposed dead boy rushed home and Into his mother's arms, having tired of wandering and returned. The Kansas Oity Time, reports that its book-kceror suffered very severely, and. for a long time, *H'a rheumatism. He, tried St. Jacobs Oil and was cured by ohe bottle of it.